DavidNash

EA Up­dates for July 2020

• DavidNash 15 Jul 2020 17:19 UTC

  3 points

  on: Sys­temic change, global poverty erad­i­ca­tion, and a ca­reer plan re­think: am I right?

  I’ve cross posted to the EA & Global Devel­op­ment Face­book group if you were in­ter­ested in the re­sponses there as well.

EA Up­dates for June 2020

• DavidNash 16 Jun 2020 14:34 UTC

  9 points

  on: Geo­graphic di­ver­sity in EA

  There is a group here that it might be worth post­ing this to—Altru­ismo Efi­caz América Latina

• DavidNash 12 Jun 2020 10:32 UTC

  18 points

  on: Look­ing for a ca­reer plan­ning ac­countabil­ity partner

  Hi Bi­anca, thanks for post­ing here, there are a few re­sources that you might find use­ful.

  EA Stu­dent Ca­reer Men­tor­ing—They offer per­son­al­ised men­tor­ship for stu­dents and re­cent graduates

  WANBAM—WANBAM con­nects and sup­ports a global net­work of women and non-bi­nary Effec­tive Altru­ists through mentorship

  Direc­tory of cause/​ca­reer groups—there may be peo­ple in the same area that would want to do this

  EA Lon­don di­rec­tory—al­though most peo­ple are based in Lon­don a few have writ­ten down a similar in­ter­est in hav­ing an ac­countabil­ity buddy

• DavidNash 9 Jun 2020 21:02 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: EdoArad’s comment on: EA Up­dates for May 2020

  OPP some­times add grants that were made months ago to their pub­lic database, so rather than just high­light the ones added in the last month, I high­light ev­ery­thing added since I last sent out the up­date.

EA Up­dates for May 2020

• DavidNash 15 May 2020 9:49 UTC

  2 points

  on: EA Direc­tory & Groups Dis­cus­sion Board

  As an up­date, I think try­ing to com­bine a di­rec­tory, fo­rum and wiki into a new web­site didn’t work.

  I’ve redi­rected the links to a di­rec­tory on the EA Lon­don web­site and think that us­ing Face­book groups as the place for these dis­cus­sions makes more sense as it is where peo­ple already are.

• DavidNash 14 May 2020 19:57 UTC

  13 points

  on: Should I claim COVID-benefits I don’t need to give to char­ity?

  I think the guid­ing prin­ci­ples from CEA would sug­gest that this is a bad idea

  “Be­cause we be­lieve that trust, co­op­er­a­tion, and ac­cu­rate in­for­ma­tion are es­sen­tial to do­ing good, we strive to be hon­est and trust­wor­thy. More broadly, we strive to fol­low those rules of good con­duct that al­low com­mu­ni­ties (and the peo­ple within them) to thrive. We also value the rep­u­ta­tion of effec­tive al­tru­ism, and rec­og­nize that our ac­tions re­flect on it. ”

• DavidNash 11 May 2020 18:49 UTC

  13 points

  on: New data sug­gests the ‘lead­ers’’ pri­ori­ties rep­re­sent the core of the community

  This is a good anal­y­sis but I think it sim­plifies be­tween short vs long term, when peo­ple of­ten aren’t 100% one or the other. As well as whether par­tic­u­lar cause ar­eas are short vs long term when some ex­is­ten­tial risk work could be seen as highly valuable even if an in­di­vi­d­ual didn’t value lives to­mor­row and some in­ter­ven­tions that are seen as near term could have a much big­ger im­pact on the fu­ture.

EA Up­dates for April 2020

Fo­cus­ing on Ca­reer & Cause Move­ment Building

• DavidNash 16 Apr 2020 11:24 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: Michelle_Hutchinson’s comment on: Con­nect­ing with On­line EA Events

  Is that be­cause Face­book is GMT, and the UK is GMT+1?

EA Up­dates for March 2020

• DavidNash 21 Mar 2020 12:28 UTC

  9 points

  on: Ad­vice for get­ting the most out of one-on-ones

  I have a rough draft of ques­tions that I some­times send to peo­ple who are think­ing of con­tact­ing some­one on the EA Lon­don di­rec­tory.

  Ques­tions to ask yourself

  • What is the pur­pose of meet­ing with this per­son?

  • What could you gain?

  • What could they gain?

  • Is it worth their time? (Po­ten­tially let peo­ple know why you think it may be use­ful)

  To help them de­cide to meet you can give your back­ground/​skills in their ar­eas of interest

  Ques­tions you could ask (choose rele­vant ones)

  • Why did you want to do X?

  • What was your back­ground be­fore X?

  • What are the biggest bot­tle­necks in cause X?

  • What skills are most use­ful for this role?

  • What pro­jects/​vol­un­teer­ing should/​could I do?

  • What is the pro­cess for be­ing se­lected for in­ter­views?
    How should I pre­pare for in­ter­views in this area?

  • If I were to be a good can­di­date for role X in one year, what would be the best ad­di­tions to my CV?

  • How do you do well in this job?

  • What do you wish you knew be­fore work­ing here?

  • Can you think of some­where else I could have more im­pact with my cur­rent back­ground and skills?

  • What do you do day to day?

  • What im­pact do you think you have/​could have?

  • What might be the most im­pact­ful thing you achieved last year/​month?

  • What might be the most im­pact­ful thing you achieve next year/​month?

  • What’s a bot­tle­neck you have with re­gard to hav­ing more im­pact?

  • What would you do if you weren’t work­ing here?

  • What do you think is the most ne­glected pro­ject/​ac­tivity in your field?

  • If you had all your liv­ing costs paid for, what pro­ject would you work on and why?

  • What was the last thing you changed your mind about (in re­la­tion to your ca­reer)?
    What was the most use­ful thing you’ve learned in the last week/​month/​year?

  • (Meta) How could these ques­tions be im­proved? Were there any par­tic­u­larly good or bad ones?

• DavidNash 18 Mar 2020 14:48 UTC

  5 points

  on: What are some 1:1 meet­ings you’d like to ar­range, and how can peo­ple find you?

  In Lon­don there is a di­rec­tory that some peo­ple have used to ar­range 1-1s, I think there are a few oth­ers for differ­ent lo­ca­tions, ca­reers and causes. I don’t know if it’s bet­ter to have one mas­ter di­rec­tory/​CRM/​mes­sag­ing ca­pa­bil­ity on the EA hub or for each group to have their own way of net­work­ing.

  What links here?

  • MichaelA's comment on I knew a bit about mis­in­for­ma­tion and fact-check­ing in 2017. AMA, if you’re re­ally des­per­ate. by MichaelA (12 May 2020 0:51 UTC; 1 point)

• DavidNash 17 Mar 2020 10:28 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: Peter_Hurford’s comment on: EA Direc­tory & Groups Dis­cus­sion Board

  Yeah, it’s try­ing to do ²⁄₃ things at once, and us­ing a fo­rum soft­ware for a di­rec­tory isn’t op­ti­mal.

• DavidNash 12 Mar 2020 22:43 UTC

  14 points

  in reply to: alexrjl’s comment on: Are there any pub­lic health fund­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties with COVID-19 that are plau­si­bly com­pet­i­tive with Givewell top char­i­ties per dol­lar?

  It looks like DFID have funded a similar in­ter­ven­tion to­day.

  https://​​www.gov.uk/​​gov­ern­ment/​​news/​​uk-aid-to-tackle-global-spread-of-coro­n­avirus-fake-news

  “Danger­ous myths about coro­n­avirus which are ham­per­ing the global fight against the dis­ease will be challenged thanks to a new ini­ti­a­tive backed by UK aid.

  The sup­port from the Depart­ment for In­ter­na­tional Devel­op­ment will challenge mis­in­for­ma­tion in South East Asia and Africa, which is then spread­ing wor­ld­wide, and di­rect peo­ple to the right ad­vice to help stop the spread of the virus.

  False claims and con­spir­acy the­o­ries have spread rapidly on so­cial me­dia, tout­ing ‘cures’ like drink­ing bleach or rub­bing mus­tard and gar­lic into your skin. Th­ese pose a se­ri­ous risk to health and can speed up the spread of the virus, by stop­ping peo­ple tak­ing sim­ple prac­ti­cal, pre­ven­ta­tive steps like wash­ing their hands.

  DFID’s £500,000 sup­port will go to the Hu­man­i­tar­ian-to-Hu­man­i­tar­ian (H2H) Net­work, which has ex­ten­sive ex­pe­rience ad­dress­ing the spread of mis­in­for­ma­tion dur­ing epi­demics, for ex­am­ple fol­low­ing the 2015 Ebola out­break.

  The work of the H2H Net­work will com­ple­ment UK ini­ti­a­tives by the Depart­ment for Digi­tal, Cul­ture, Me­dia and Sport and the NHS to tackle mis­in­for­ma­tion on­line.

  In­ter­na­tional Devel­op­ment Sec­re­tary Anne-Marie Treve­lyan said:

  “Mis­in­for­ma­tion harms us all. By tack­ling it at source we will help stop the spread of fake news – and coro­n­avirus – wor­ld­wide, in­clud­ing within the UK.”

  H2H will work with part­ners BBC Me­dia Ac­tion and In­ternews to cre­ate ver­ified in­for­ma­tion in var­i­ous lan­guages to tackle spe­cific mis­truths spread­ing in South East Asia and Africa. Their work will also sup­port jour­nal­ists in these re­gions to write more ac­cu­rately about the virus us­ing in­for­ma­tion from the World Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion.

  Sup­port will also go to Trans­la­tors with­out Borders, which mon­i­tors false in­for­ma­tion in var­i­ous lan­guages and trans­lates val­i­dated con­tent from WHO and other health agen­cies, and Ev­i­dence Aid which up­dates a database of re­search on dis­eases each day.

  The ini­ti­a­tive will analyse so­cial me­dia and on­line con­tent to iden­tify where the mis­in­for­ma­tion is com­ing from and how it is spread­ing – so vic­tims of fake news can be sent the cor­rect in­for­ma­tion and di­rected to offi­cial health ad­vice.”

EA Up­dates for Fe­bru­ary 2020

EA Direc­tory & Groups Dis­cus­sion Board